Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span

Edelman APRN MS CS BC CMC, Carole Lium

ISBN 10: 0323031285 / ISBN 13: 9780323031288

Editore: Elsevier/Mosby, 2005

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• Titolo: Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span
• Editore: Elsevier/Mosby
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0323031285
• ISBN 13: 9780323031288
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: good

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Riassunto

This comprehensive text provides the most current and accurate health promotion and disease prevention information available. The book addresses health promotion for all ages and all population groups - individuals, families, and communities. It includes extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span, with an emphasis on normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. A complete unit is devoted to health promotion interventions. It also offers a unique assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation and an approach in line with the promotion of health.

• Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout all stages of the life span.
• A unit on specific interventions for health promotion.
• Addresses health promotion for all population groups - individual, family, and the community.
• Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a "real-life" perspective.
• Innovative Practice examples highlight unique and creative health promotion programs.
• Summarizes specific clinical interventions in Health Teaching boxes to provide students with "how-to" nursing actions.
• Think About It clinical scenarios provide critical thinking questions to help readers grasp important concepts.
• Multicultural Awareness boxes present cultural perspectives important to care planning.
• Introduces significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion through Hot Topics boxes to engage students in critical discussion and debate about these topics.
• Research Highlights emphasize current research efforts and research opportunities in health promotion.

• A new Study Questions section (with answers and rationales) helps you review and assess your understanding of chapter content.
• Care Plans are presented in a consistent format: Nursing Diagnosis, Defining Characteristics, Related Factors, Expected Outcomes, and Interventions.
• Healthy People 2010 boxes highlight current national health promotion priorities.
• A new full-color design helps to highlight important features and content.
• A new companion Evolve website offers case studies with questions and answers, WebLinks, content updates, and a Glossary with search capability to enhance your learning experience.

Contenuti

Unit 1 Foundations for Health Promotion

1. Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention

2. Changing Populations and Health

3. Health Policy and the Delivery System

4. The Therapeutic Relationship

5. Ethical Issues Relevant to Health Promotion

Unit 2 Assessment for Health Promotion

6. Health Promotion and the Individual

7. Health Promotion and the Family

8. Health Promotion and the Community

Unit 3 Interventions for Health Promotion

9. Screening

10. Health Education

11. Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion

12. Exercise

13. Stress Management

14. Holistic Health Strategies

Unit 4 Application of Health Promotion

15. Overview of Growth and Development Framework

16. The Prenatal Period

17. Infant

18. Toddler

19. Preschool Child

20. School-Age Child

21. Adolescent

22. Young Adult

23. Middle-Age Adult

24. Older Adult

Unit 5 Challenges as We Enter the New Millennium

25. Health Promotion for the Twenty-First Century: Throughout the Lifespan and Throughout the World

Glossary

Study Questions